GDT: Game 30 - New York Rangers vs New Jersey Devils - 7pm EST - MSG,NHLN

[Atax]

I feel like Hajek was our best player that period. And thats not a good thing.

 

[Kovalev27]

Rooting hard for Blais but right now he is giving this team nothing

He hasn’t hit anyone. He’s slow as shit. It’s criminal kravtsov is sitting for this guy. Who’s done nothing. Ever.

 

[Machinehead]

I don't know how you can be unable to skate into the middle of the ice in the offensive zone. I literally have no idea how anybody can suggest that an NHL player or even an ECHL player is unable to skate through the middle of the ice. It's all about willingness

Anybody can skate there. Getting a good look there is another matter.

The prime real estate is protected. We're the easiest team to defend in the league.

The problem is offense. Has been since I'm alive.

 

[AlaBlueShirt]

+1 800-609-8731
There's the number.

 

[bleedblue94]

It’s mind numbing

And even beyond that, it screams incompetence. I don't know how a manager can watch that from a decision making standpoint and think to themselves the person making the decision should continue making the decisions. The utilization of the youth on his team has approached absolute sheer stupidity, but beyond stupidity it's just completely contradicting itself game after game, and period after period

 

[Chalfdiggity3]

So im guessing the new lines are

Panarin Zibs Goody
Krieder Troc Vesey
Kid line
Blais Johnny B Gaut

 

[ReleasO The KakkO]

Someone brought up Zucc, and man is he the one I wish made it to this core from the old cole years with Kreider. He should've been one of the holdovers.

And didn’t he turn out to be the first one the Rangers dealt? (not counting the Stepan trade)

 

[Captain Lindy]

Pretty decent second half tbh. It's sad to say but Blais may be done and if he's not, he needs time in the AHL to rebuild his body and skill.

A stint in Hartford is a good idea for Blais.

 

[Profet]

It can’t even be the coach at this point.

It’s like the core carries over their bad habits in practice regardless of the coach. The new guys learn from the old guys and everything stays the same.

I’ve always said that the organization is “too first rate” in terms of pampering and pandering to their players and that it breeds a country club atmosphere. Even during the Callahan years when we were an all will hockey team that worked harder than other teams, we suffered from flat out awful starts and periods where we were just lifeless.

And the team simply cannot move the puck at the same caliber of the best teams in the league, no matter what personnel we have. Zuccarello is a nice player, but he’s not irreplaceable. Watch Zucc, Kaprizov and Hartman move the puck. Bratt, Hischier and Sherangovich or Tatar. It doesn’t matter what trio we put on the ice - they cannot smoothly move the puck.

Or maybe this team hasn't had an X's, O's coach since torts? The Rangers seemed to have the perfect formula figured out.

Get a good systems coach to teach "the right way"... Once the teams learns, move on to a motivational coach with less of a "my way or the highway" approach.

They seemed to have abandoned this approach and can't seem to figure out why no one on the team knows what to do when because of a decidedly lack of system in place.

If you fire a "good guy" coach like Quinn and then hire another "good guy" in Gallant, you can't wonder why the results haven't changed.

 

[Atax]

He hasn’t hit anyone. He’s slow as shit. It’s criminal kravtsov is sitting for this guy. Who’s done nothing. Ever.

Gallant: We need more jam like when I used to play.

 

[Unpredictable1]

I never said anything about adding grit. You tend to like to marry the two concepts. Vanesse players can also penetrate the house area in the offensive zone, and when they do it opens up all their options to make finesse plays. Willingness to go to dirty areas on the ice has nothing to do with grit, it has everything to do with a player's willingness to go to an area that most people don't want to go. That's not grit, that's playing team hockey and effective hockey

100% - we tend to back off as if there's a barbedwire fence in that house area most of the time. Same with our forecheck/dirty areas down low and corners. We need more players bulldozing their way through there.

 

[will1066]

Y'all better brace yourselves for Bill Pidto and his MSG 150.

 

[bl02]

Nils is now pacing for more points than Kakko. Would be nice if the kid starting putting up some points.

 

[kinger8998]

The constant need to resort back to the kid line because the veterans can't drive the bus is just so sickening. He really is a contradiction. The coaching staff doesn't trust the kids to play with the vets for whatever reason but whenever the team sucks they want to put all the kids back together because there are the team's best line. It's like a paradox of stupidity

The simple conclusion to really give the vets a wakeup call would be to run kids as L1 and throw the entire line out as PP1 with Fox and net front presence Julien Gauthier. Gauthier is big and has speed to retrieve dump ins on forecheck or on entry. Laf flank Kakko right flank Chytil bumper

 

[Svenhart2008]

Not for nothing, but that 2-0 goal is a clear hook to Truba

 

[mrmovies779]

There's #TheVets once again doing the only thing in the period worth a damn while Lafreniere and Kakko become Arron Asham and Jarrett Stoll.

You know it to be true.

Yeah because in their 3 minutes of ice time,we expect the world of them.come on dude,be fair

 

[bleedblue94]

Anybody can skate there. Getting a good look there is another matter.

The prime real estate is protected. We're the easiest team to defend in the league.

The problem is offense. Has been since I'm alive.

But fundamentally we don't even have players without the puck that want to go there. That's the problem. Players driving the center lane open up space for other players to either jump into the voids that the first player created or to take advantage of passing lanes. But our entire strategy is basically to post up on both sides of the boards and then maybe have somebody download behind the net. And then maybe cycle it around aimlessly until we try to force across ice pass. There's no center house space presence whether it's on the rush or when there's zone pressure

 

[Machinehead]

The Kid Line is not only stupid and toxic, it's also not a particularly good line.

Their underlying numbers are actually mediocre and they couldn't score in a whorehouse.

Don't let the Rangers gaslight you again.

 

[DanielBrassard]

Instead of focusing on hotel rooms or how the organization treats it's players, or whatever other ancillary thing that probably has no effect on the product on the ice, I think there's a much simpler answer for why the Rangers have been so unsuccessful, it's called roster construction.

 

[kinger8998]

And didn’t he turn out to be the first one the Rangers dealt? (not counting the Stepan trade)

Yeah I think so. Stepan was first offseason dominoe then Zucc went followed by Nash and McDonagh

 

[irishlaxburger2]

A stint in Hartford is a good idea for Blais.

Or just trade him for a 6th rounder and bank the cap space

 

[TheDirtyH]

You can't play fast if it takes every player on your team 2-5 seconds to decide what they're going to do at any given moment. Panarin and Fox and sometimes Kakko get to take their time. The rest of this roster needs to play without their brains on--which was reportedly Gallants biggest strength as a coach!!!

 

[Glen Sathers Cigar]

More from Igor needed. He’s a different player on the road, it’s def bc of his baby at home.

I have a 2 year old and 4 month old. It drains me and I just sit at a desk all day.

 

[CLW]

The whole thing is how we approach it. We don't penetrate because our offense does precisely f*** all to move anyone out of position.

Adding grit is only going to make it worse. Goodrow is "willing" and was supposed to be part of correcting it.

It's gotten worse because we keep adding slow ass plugs with no ability.

Adding plugs has been the approach since the firing of Gorton & JD. The list is long of Gallant's "good old boys" and big muscle men signed after Drury and Gallant knocked their hockey heads together.

 

[JT Kreider]

Yeah I think so. Stepan was first offseason dominoe then Zucc went followed by Nash and McDonagh

And we have barely anything to show for any of those players +Miller + Hayes + Buch.

A can't miss rebuild ended up DoA